We introduce a coe cient update procedure into existing batch and online dictionary learning algorithms. We rst propose an algorithm which is a coe cient updated version of the Method of Optimal Directions (MOD) dictionary learning algorithm (DLA). The MOD algorithm with coe cient updates presents a computationally expensive dictionary learning iteration with high convergence rate. Secondly, we...

In this paper, the performance of several algorithms for the quantization of the mel-generalized cepstral coe cients is studied. First, the objective and subjective performance of two-stage vector quantization (VQ) is measured. It is shown that subjective quality for the mel-generalized cepstral coe cients is higher than that for LSP. Secondly, interframe prediction is introduced in the encodin...

Received signal strength indicator plays a very important role in many WLAN applications. However wireless signal strength will be greatly affected by noise and disturbance. It is critical to remove the abnormal data in order to provide a reliable estimation of the received signal strength indicator. Conventional mean value based approaches require large amount of data which would lead to unrel...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...

It is surprisingly di cult to calculate analytic expressions for virial coe cients. Even the exact calculation of the second virial coe cient is in general extremely di cult. If particles have no other interaction than hard core repulsion, things are slightly easier. In the isotropic phase, the second virial coe cient B 2 of two arbitrary, convex particles A and B can be determined by [1]

We studied electrical resistivity and the Hall coe cient of single-crystalline samples of an oxide superconductor Sr2RuO4 under hydrostatic pressures up to 1.2 GPa. The value of Tc decreases by 36 % at 1.2 GPa, while no appreciable change in the resistivity or the Hall coe cient has been observed. At room temperature an unexpected increase of resistivity along the c axis occurs with increasing ...